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Florida Gov.-elect Rick Scott embraces choice

Gov.-elect Rick Scott got some national attention last week while speaking at an event celebrating the companies that so far...

Children of color are not the only ones empowered by private school options

As the Florida coordinator of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), I am frequently asked by Democrats in other states why...

How CEOs can become a force for education reform

Florida is one of seven states with no personal income tax, which explains why its Tax Credit Scholarship for low-income...

Parents are ready to make choice the norm. Are states ready to accommodate them?

These events are not isolated. If we are to accept Manno’s analysis, more than half the nation’s 57 million elementary and secondary school students are attending a K-12 school of their choice. Public education to these families no longer represents the traditionally zoned neighborhood school, and the leaders who they elect are taking notice.

We'll see more school choices with Rhee's impatience

Rhee has lent her support to the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program, and she made it clear yesterday that her new advocacy group, Students First, will push for similar programs. Getting states to clear the obstacles to additional charter schools and pushing for opportunity scholarships will anchor what Rhee identified as a key component of a four-part legislative agenda for the group: an expansion of school choice and competition.

Private schools with public students need oversight

Fordham reasoned that the more a private school begins through its percentage of voucher or tax credit scholarship students to look like a public school, the more it needs to be regulated like one. That seems fair enough as a working guideline. In Florida, where we have 33,000 tax credit scholarship students who make up on average only 17 percent of the total enrollment in their private schools, the sliding scale approach seems entirely reasonable.

Klein is close, but his call for choices falls short

Outgoing New York schools chancellor Joel Klein is right to identify that low-income families deserve to have the best educational options available to them, but he frames the argument for school choice in a way that stops short of advocating for equal opportunities for our most disadvantaged families.

Choices are reshaping Florida's educational landscape, and the nation is taking notice

Roughly one of every three public schoolchildren in Florida now attend a school other than the one tied to their zip code.

Figlio says private option for poor helps public schools too

The drive to improve our nation’s schools is not a zero-sum game, and a report launched today on Educationnext.org shows...

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